Replace with P Word Game

You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I’m Martha Barnette.

And I’m Grant Barrett, and we’re joined from New York City by our quiz guy, John Chaneski.

Hi, John.

Hello, Grant. Hello, Martha. How are you guys today?

Doing well.

Good, good. I’m doing very well myself.

I have a pretty simple quiz for you today.

What I’ve done is I’ve taken a two-word phrase and changed the first letter of the first word to P.

So, now, the second word remains the same.

I’ll describe the result, and you tell me what the changed phrase is, and the original phrase is, if you’re so inclined.

For example, I’ve decided to open what my mother would call a beauty parlor in my home, but mine will be very romantic.

You can only book appointments for couples.

No singles, only two at a time, please.

Now, what would you call a place like that?

So, would you be a pear stylist?

That’s not bad.

Pear Salon is what I was going for, but yes, pear stylist works very well.

Exactly. I think you’ve got it.

Here are a few more. I mean a few more.

All right.

Now, here in Georgia, we hold our own unique Summer Olympic Games.

It includes our version of a game with a ball and a net.

But we use only locally grown fruit instead of a ball.

What is that you’re doing? What is that voice?

That’s my Georgia accent.

Is that what this is?

Peach volleyball.

Peach volleyball, indeed, yes.

Oh, I was going paddy.

Very good.

I’m sorry, Georgia.

I apologize.

Sorry, Georgia.

Now, I know I don’t have much experience in city planning, but hear me out.

Suppose we took a city just west of Dallas, Texas,

And relocated the entire place just off the Gulf of Mexico.

That way, we could ship goods directly there.

Port Worth.

Port Worth, yes.

Nice.

As opposed to Fort Worth, of course.

Now, over the course of my life, I’ve taken classes in karate, judo, taekwondo, all sorts.

But invariably, I get halfway through the thing and I just stop.

Partial arts.

Partial arts, yes.

Excellent, excellent. Grant’s on a roll.

Yes, very good. It was an obscured sign for martial arts that actually inspired this quiz.

That’s awesome.

Now, this restaurant in Tokyo is famous for its chicken dishes.

The secret is every day they use a super-fast railway

To deliver young hens straight from the farm.

The pull-it train.

The pull-it train, yes.

Very good.

That’s good.

Welcome, Hogwarts students, to London Heathrow Airport.

As you know, you’re not allowed to bring any magical liquids,

Elixirs, brews, filters, whatever, on board the plane.

Now, just to be sure, we have a device that will find and identify such things.

A potion detector.

That’s it, a potion detector.

Nice, Martha.

Anyway, that’s my pea change for today.

You guys did fantastic.

Congratulations.

Oh, John, thank you so much.

That was a real workout.

We’ll talk to you next week.

Give our best to the family, all right?

Take care.

You too.

Bye-bye.

All right.

Bye-bye.

We had a great time talking with John, and now we want to talk with you.

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